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Jacques de Béthencourt

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91: 104: 97: 37:(French disease), which was a popular name for sexually transmitted diseases at the time. He believed that since the disease originated from "illicit love" it should be named 141: 52:
or the "New Book of Penance". Here he uses medical and moral judgments regarding the disease. In this treatise he creates an argument as to whether
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is the best cure, and to what level of suffering a patient should have to endure in order to "be taught a necessary lesson".
160: 127: 170: 45:(venereal disease). Béthencourt believed it to be a new disease that was unknown to the ancients. 57: 27: 111: 154: 69: 90: 22:(fl. early 16th century) was a French physician who practiced medicine in 53: 96: 23: 115: 75:
The Wages of Sin: Sex and Disease, Past and Present
110:This biography related to medicine in France is a 33:As a Frenchman, Béthencourt resented the term 135: 48:In 1527, Béthencourt published a book called 8: 142: 128: 26:. He is remembered for coining the term 7: 86: 84: 14: 102: 95: 89: 176:French medical biography stubs 166:16th-century French physicians 1: 114:. You can help Knowledge by 70:Patient Plus site, Syphilis 50:Nouveau Cartme de penitence 192: 83: 20:Jacques de Béthencourt 41:(Malady of Venus) or 77:by Peter Lewis Allen 161:16th-century deaths 171:Bettencourt family 123: 122: 183: 144: 137: 130: 106: 105: 101: 100: 99: 93: 85: 28:venereal disease 16:French physician 191: 190: 186: 185: 184: 182: 181: 180: 151: 150: 149: 148: 103: 94: 88: 81: 66: 39:Morbus Venereus 35:Morbus Gallicus 17: 12: 11: 5: 189: 187: 179: 178: 173: 168: 163: 153: 152: 147: 146: 139: 132: 124: 121: 120: 107: 79: 78: 72: 65: 62: 15: 13: 10: 9: 6: 4: 3: 2: 188: 177: 174: 172: 169: 167: 164: 162: 159: 158: 156: 145: 140: 138: 133: 131: 126: 125: 119: 117: 113: 108: 98: 92: 87: 82: 76: 73: 71: 68: 67: 63: 61: 59: 55: 51: 46: 44: 40: 36: 31: 29: 25: 21: 116:expanding it 109: 80: 74: 49: 47: 43:lues venerea 42: 38: 34: 32: 19: 18: 155:Categories 64:References 54:guaiacum 58:mercury 24:Rouen 112:stub 56:or 157:: 30:. 143:e 136:t 129:v 118:.

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